Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to mamagnome!! Have a great one!!

Walkies

(Cross-posted to healthy_fen and mdlbear.)

Down to the pond via the hill; 1.5 times around. A little slower this time, mainly by shortening my stride. Stretching before and after. Wore the running shoes with an ankle brace on the left; this seems to have worked. One knee twinge, on the right, and some random muscle tightness mainly on the left calf and, for the first time, the right thigh. I think I'm basically hitting different sets of limits each time. Hopefully that indicates progress.

Stats: time: 47:17; avg: 120; max 146.

Goals for the weekend

• Read the relevant parts of Stretching (11/3) and scan the diagrams so I have a reference I can carry around with me. (Monday at work?)
• Re-arrange the concert and studio track directories, putting tracks underneath albums where appropriate. Having them all in one directory makes it too big and cluttered, and makes it hard to have multiple versions of a song. Split OVFF recordings into large chunks and assign meaningful names. (11/3: moved concerts to /users/record; renamed OVFF files. Not split yet.)
• Install the Delta 1010 soundcard and 64Studio on the machine that's currently my workstation (Trantor). Swap video cards and names with the old recording machine (Harmony) and move it into the studio bedroom for recording.
• Firm up the set list for my concert at Loscon. Assume +Kat -Joyce. (11/3 tentatively, and in no particular order: cicero rosie stuff mil-dawn bugs tool bigger rrprayer barratry)

For some people this may be NaNoWriMo; I'm not going to have time for that. I want to have scratch tracks for Amethyst Rose, and hopefully also for Hackers' Heaven done by the end of the year.

The Victorian laptop

Datamancer.net -- Datamancer's Steampunk Victorian Laptop

This may look like a Victorian music box, but inside this intricately hand-crafted wooden case lives a Hewlett-Packard ZT1000 laptop that runs both Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. It features an elaborate display of clockworks under glass, engraved brass accents, claw feet, an antiqued copper keyboard and mouse, leather wrist pads, and customized wireless network card. The machine turns on with an antique clock-winding key by way of a custom-built ratcheting switch made from old clock parts.

(From Gizmodo.)

Also features links to some other cool steampunk articles. The site itself appears to be slashdotted at the moment.

Steampunk gallery

Steam-Driven Dreams: The Wondrously Whimsical World of Steampunk

For those who can't reach datamancer.net and want some dark wood and polished brass to drool over.